Celestron has reportedly done some fine tuning and has reduced the mount’s already decent periodic error figure to 3-arc seconds (they say). But if there is a single major drawback of the Atlas, it is that weight. You currently have 0 posts. With a careful relube, and AstroBaby retune as Joe mentioned may get around 5 arcsec.

If you are an imager who fancies taking exposures longer than about 30-seconds, though, you need an equatorial. However. As thats where the volume is SYnta would be mad to regulate the mounts to a higher spec and risk increasing the cost. Why not a fork?” I used equatorial fork mounts (a fork tipped over by a wedge to point at the North Celestial Pole) for several decades, and they will always have

Login ID Password I've forgotten my password Remember me This is not recommended for shared computers Privacy Policy Cloudy Nights LLC Cloudy Nights Sponsor: Astronomics Welcome to the Astronomy Forums | In the PHD 2 log it's recorded as -0.6 deg. I am an EQ6 owner, and love both the handpaddle (for simpler set-up) and EQMOD (when I can afford the time to set it all up).One mount that is in the Friction drive.

plus a bunch of ham radios... Despite its few warts, I love the CG5 very much and have made thousands of observations (literally) with it over the seven years I’ve had it. Do I enter that when I load the log file? It doesn't matter if you are using the HAND BOX in PC Direct mode or and EQDIR interface module from Shoestring Astronomy.

I did good work at 1300mm, but I had a higher percentage of round star subframes at about 700mm. Alt-azimuth mounts are cool. You can use other software with the mount as I understand things, but TheSky must still be running in the background. You can get the Ascom system at http://ascom-standards.org/Downloads/Index.htm .

It's mostly done on multi-day camping trips to dark sites. To a lesser extent it also has to do with backlash in the declination axis. but that Atlas has a long way yet to go... I was worried about this so I looked at the output log and it seemed that the corrections stopped after I did the setting change.

Also, PEC is typically not used in conjunction with an autoguider. The CGEM was immediately beset by armies of gremlins, who attacked the hand control viciously. Celestron CGE Pro The CGE Pro is where we leave the realm of “a mount for the rest of us” and enter the land of “a mount for a few of But again, that has been manageable.

By balancing the scope carefully so that it was slightly east heavy and rebalancing as necessary as I moved around the sky, I was able to auto-guide my SBIG CCD camera Moreover, these factors have rather complex interrelation to each other; e.g., you can use shorter focal distances keeping star-swinging problem at low level on the surface of the CCD sensor in The Atlas Pro's dual-width dovetail saddle accommodates both narrow (Vixen-style) and wide (Losmandy-style) dovetail attachment plates. PEC (Periodic Error Correction) training function provides a manual correcting method to reduce the amplitude of the worm gear errors.

You currently have 0 posts. The worst two I have worked on have suffered all manner of ills internally (gunk, metal flakes in the gears, busted washers, seized bearings etc etc) but they still worked rather Vixen Sphinx I was mighty excited when Vixen came out with its Star Book hand controller about six years ago, but that excitement soon turned to dismay. I'm assuming the MyT would provide much more reliable tracking than the Atlas.

This is what I get now with the same data. TelescopeMan Web Site To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. Rapid turnaround. It is way beyond what I need—this mount is easily capable of being operated remotely, for example—and I suspect it’s also a little past what I want to deal with in

The first LX800 mounts delivered were utterly non-functional, with some having mechanical problems in addition to non-working Starlock computers. The altitude – azimuth adjusters are the pits. This can be very beneficial when traveling with the scope as locations can quickly be automatically entered into the hand control. You currently have 0 posts.

Reply With Quote The Following User Says Thank You to Joe Lalumia For This Useful Post: admin(08-14-2011) 08-14-2011,01:29 AM #3 admin Administrator Achievements: Join Date Mar 2007 Location Sydney, Australia Posts In wind the CG5 will shake like a sinner in the hands of Elmer Gantry, even with just a C8 onboard, an OTA that is otherwise perfect for it. This is a well-known and widely accepted general rule among highly qualified amateur astronomers worldwide. The graph is just over 33 minutes (2016 seconds) of monitoring.

the EQ-6 (Sky-Watcher) is the defacto GEM for us amateur astronomy hoi polloi in the U.S. Still, this is not the GEM for everybody. I used to bother with PEC with this mount but don't any more. I was confused about how to calibrate with guiding enabled, then collect data with guiding disabled.

What might? Doing so will mess up the EQASCOM connection. The mount had a few teething pains when it came out, though certainly not to the extent the CGEM had. Doubtless Synta could make the QC much better but I;d bet a vast number of these mounts are used by people who will never really use them and for certain wont

By Manuel Joseph Din in forum Amateur Astronomy Forum Replies: 5 Last Post: 08-24-2004, 03:56 PM Tags for this Thread atlas, error, periodic View Tag Cloud Posting Permissions You may not Since telescopes come in all shapes and sizes, the eyepiece height will vary, even when using the same tripod.